From isantos@illinois.edu Tue May 21 09:37:05 1996
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From: isantos@illinois.edu (Ines Santos)
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Subject: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.

Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.
Nova's voice has ZERO splicing glitches. The Stardust documents describe this as 'Vocal Matrix Modeling' running on custom DSP hardware.

How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation?

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Subject: Re: Discussion: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant
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In article <1996May21.093705.8965@illinois.edu>, isantos@illinois.edu (Ines Santos) writes:
> Looking at the vocal stem processing on 'Threshold' and 'Brighter Than The Sun'.
> Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars.

They weren't using off-the-shelf Eventide gear. They had custom Motorola DSP boards doing LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) resynthesis.

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